Best of Motion Picture Scores [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 10, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B00004SUEO
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,027,287 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would have been one of Hollywood's best., January 10, 2004

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DJ Rix (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best of Motion Picture Scores (Audio CD)

Shostakovich's film music is usually disparaged when compared with his concert hall compositions. Of course it isn't up to those standards. Most of the movies weren't good & some scoring assignments were actually propaganda punishments for his "formalist" & "decadent" creative transgressions, & none ranks with the Eisenstein/Prokofiev collaborations. But try comparing this music with what came out of Hollywood during the later of these years. Alex North is rightly praised for "Cleopatra," Franz Waxman for "Taras Bulba" & "Peyton Place." Also John Green's "Raintree County." These are hardly film classics. Miklos Rozsa, a consummate professional, turned out memorable scores for some very expensive clinkers. Such examples are legion. Brits William Walton & Malcom Arnold arranged concert suites of their movie music. & I personally despise Maurice Jarre for composing that insidious earworm, "Lara's Theme."

This double CD box is indifferently programmed & contains no liner notes; you'll have to sort out the history yourself. But the performances are fine - a few are on higher-priced releases. The music itself ranges from cabaret to waltzes to dramatic battle action. In "New Babylon" the Krafty Komposer demonstrates the sardonic wit he often used to mock his Soviet Kulture Kummittee Kumrades.

Bob Rixon

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best of Motion Picture Scores, July 22, 2000

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Otis H Bowman Jr (Little Rock, Ar United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Motion Picture Scores (Audio CD)

If you like Shostakovich's main music, check out this sampling of his motion picture scores, his little know music. I think you will be suprisue.